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Global patterns of genetic admixture reveal effects of language contact

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Graff A   +8 more
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Linguistic history and historical linguistics

Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 2018
AbstractThis invited response to a piece by LaPolla, published in issue 39/2 ofLTBA, addresses both LaPolla’s misrepresentations of the history of linguistics and his flawed understanding of historical linguistics. The history of linguistic thought with regard to the Tibeto-Burman or Trans-Himalayan language family vs. the Indo-Chinese or “Sino-Tibetan”
G. Driem
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Comparative-Historical Linguistics

open access: gold, 2013
Historical linguistics is about how and why language changes over time. Comparative linguistics, in the relevant sense, is the study of linguistic relatedness, that is to say, of genetic or ancestral connections and related matters of subgrouping extending to the reconstruction of unattested ancestral languages or proto-languages.
Joseph Salmons, Emily Utz
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Register in historical linguistics

Register Studies, 2019
AbstractMerja Kytö is Professor of English Language at Uppsala University. In this article, she provides a detailed accounting of the role of register in research on the historical development of language. Her substantial body of work has focused on both the historical development of specific registers, as well as how historical change has been ...
Merja Kytö
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Trask's Historical Linguistics

2015
1. The fact of language change 2. Lexical and semantic change 3. Phonological change I: Change in pronunciation 4. Phonological change II: Change in phonological systems 5. Morphological change 6. Syntactic change 7. Relatedness between languages 8.
Robert McColl Millar, R L Trask
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Historical Linguistics and the Case for Sign Language Families

Sign Language Studies, 2021
:This article offers a brief overview of historical linguistics and explores the value of historical sign linguistics. The specific focus of the article is on the question of the extent to which the concept of "sign language families" is a legitimate and
T. Reagan
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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